Finally Official

Special Olympics finally announced the members of Team Canada who will attend the Special Olympics World Games in Athens Greece in June 2011.  I am happy to announce that team PEI softball team is now officially a member of Team Canada.
I can start believing that we are really going to Greece and compete for our country.
We have a meeting in Ch'town tThursday October 7th with the athletes & parents to explain what we have in mind for our training this winter to get the boys in good shape & ready to go to Greece to kick some foreign butt.  On October 14 the real training will start & will be held every Thursday all winter.  I will keep you posted on how the boys are doing with the training.  Our hitting is the very best, we have an infield that will be the envy of the rest of the other teams, our pitching is excellent but our weakness is our outfield as they are not as good as you would like but they won us a gold medal so we have no complaints.  Our job this winter is to keep our pitching & infield as sharp as they were at London & to spend time on the outfield to get them tp play up to a highrer leval.  They are a great group of guys so I will be quite suprised if they do not lift up their play.

Welcome Home

                                                   Team (PEI) Canada

Wednesday September 8, 2010 the City of Charlottetown held an open house for Team PEISO to honor us for the fine performance by the athletes at the recent SO Canada Games held in London, Ontario.

The official announcement that Team PEI softball has been invited to join Team Canada and attend the World Special Olympic games in June 2011.  The games will be held in Athens Greece.

For an Athlete or coach to represent your country at an international sporting event is as good as it gets.  That we have been chosen is still a little hard for me to comprehend but I am getting used to the idea and to be perfectly honest I can hardly wait till the big event.  There will be 7500 athletes, 2500 coaches representing 180 different countries from around the world.  Can you imagine the excitement when we all come marching into the opening ceremonies.  Will most certainly be one of the most exciting and proudest moments of my life.

Gonna pack it in for now.
      
                            

Special News

This is my first post on this new blog site, the news is not out yet but the Special Olympics PEI softball team has been invited to join Team Canada and will be going to Athens Greece to the Special Olympics World Games to be held June 2011.  This is quite an honor to go to an international sporting event to represent your country.

What I hope to do with this blog is to spend from now to the games reporting on the progress of the team, how they are coming, their reactions to the honor, and sending daily reports while we are at the games.

I will do an entry on each of the players, hopefully with pictures if I can make it work and a story on the coaches of which I am one. 

Oh yes before I forget we won Gold at the Canadian Special Olympics Games held July 2010 in London, Ontario.  You might say the boys worked their way to the worlds.  I can honestly say I have never been prouder or happier of any group of people in my life.  Thank heavens I was wearing a pair of dark glasses when the last out was made and we won the game if you know what I mean.

The first picture is of the happy team taken just after the gold medal game was over, the second one is of the three coaches showing medals borrowed from the players as coaches are not given medals.